Reborn as a New Farmer of the 1980s

Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....

Chapter 378: Your Wise Words

After everyone in the house had left, Wan Feng, Luan Feng and the others began to move.

There were nine people in total, including three women who brought their machines, three apprentices, and Luan Feng and Jiang Min.

First, the cloth coupons from the inner room were moved to the material warehouse at the entrance to the courtyard. The warehouse was about 24 or 25 square meters. At Wan Feng's request, the carpenter had built a simple wall cabinet against the wall. The cloth was placed upright in the cabinet, making it easier to retrieve the cloth.

There were dozens of pieces of cloth, including good and defective ones. Two women carried one piece, and Wan Feng carried one piece by himself. It took more than an hour just to deal with all this cloth.

Once the cloth is in place, move the sewing machine.

The five sewing machines in the house were moved into the sewing room one by one.

While the women were moving the sewing machines, Wan Feng assembled the three unassembled sewing machines.

Eight sewing machines were placed in a row, making the 70-plus square meter sewing room seem empty.

After finishing these things, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon.

The three new sewing machines were given to Li Erman and her friends for use. The three girls were so happy that they danced with joy, as if they were about to follow the rhythm of the tape recorder.

Wanfeng has a clear ban on dancing and does not publicize it to the public.

Cases of people being arrested and sentenced to several years in prison for dancing were not uncommon in the early days of reform and opening up, especially during the crackdown two years later.

This is no joke.

Wan Feng regretted dancing after drinking too much.

This time, Zhou Bingde brought an order for 52 suits. Huaer finally did some serious work and finally got the job of making more than 50 suits for Wan Feng.

This batch of work worth more than 2,100 yuan was given to Jiang Min and the three veterans who joined with their machines. Luan Feng brought Li Erman and five people from outsourced processing points to rush to complete the work for Xin Li.

So, after moving into the new workshop, they started to get busy.

Wan Feng fulfilled his promise and went to school on time on Saturday, and continued to tease Chen Wenxin and Xu Ying in class.

The boys in the class who joined Wan Feng's get-rich-quick plan scratched their heads, trying to guess what Wan Feng would ask them to sell. They actually guessed more than a hundred items, showing their quite rich imagination.

When these speculations were presented to Wan Feng for review, all he got was a shake of his head.

So these guys had to give up guessing because they really couldn't guess it.

Zhang Guangpu's men worked all day on Saturday to put up the roof tiles on the new house and build a dragon ridge.

The exterior of the new house finally takes shape.

The next step is the finishing work of the new house, which means cleaning the interior, building partition walls, painting the walls, cementing the floor, and building the kang and the stove.

These things were enough for them to play with for two days, and the last thing they had to do was build the courtyard wall.

In another three to five days, we will be able to move into the new house.

Zhang Hai originally hoped that Zhang Guangpu and his team would build a kang and a stove for the team headquarters after they finished their work, but after seeing the progress of Zhu Yan's new house, he decisively gave up this plan.

If they waited until Zhang Guangpu and his team finished their work on the new house before coming to the team headquarters to build the kang, the cucumber dish would not only be cold, but would probably be frozen.

Zhou Bingde's people will move in tomorrow, so it's too late to wait for Zhang Guangpu.

Zhang Hai decisively transferred some people who had worked as bricklayers in their early years from the team, packed up all the broken items in some of the team's houses and piled them up in the corners outside, and brought red bricks from the brick factory to make kangs, build heating stoves and open chimneys.

After finishing the kang in a room, he would immediately light a fire to dry it, and he would work until midnight without being idle.

Even so, only six kangs were set up.

This is all he can do today. He will have to work hard for another day tomorrow and the remaining six kangs will be almost done. As for whether the hot kangs can be slept on at night, Zhang Hai doesn't worry about it. Anyway, his job is to make the kangs ready.

Zhang Hai had no idea how many people would come to Yijian, so he didn't know how many cooks he should find. Anyway, he temporarily reserved a few people, including Chen Wenxin's mother who was recommended by Wan Feng.

In the evening, Wan Feng gave Zhu Yan the gift list from Zhou Bingde and others and one hundred yuan.

"I didn't give this gift list to the Jiang family, so I gave it to you. How you deal with it is up to you. I want to remind you that you will have to return the gifts yourself. If you give it to Jiang Li's family, they will definitely not care about it in the future."

Anyway, he had made his words clear, so how she and Jiang Li handled the situation was none of his business.

On Sunday morning, Wan Feng came back from exercising by the river, had corn porridge and salted fish for breakfast, and then began a day of traveling around.

He didn't plan to go anywhere else today, so he just wandered around the depression.

He went to Nanshan and took a quick look at the new house. Ever since the incident on the day of the beam raising, he had become much less concerned about the new house. He just said a few words to Zhang Guangpu and then went into Chen Wenxin's house.

Compared with the new house next door, Chen Wenxin's house is like a shack, not only with a narrow space but also dark.

Chen Cang went to work at the brick factory, and Chen Wenxin's mother was cleaning the house.

Wan Feng told her about asking her to cook for Yijian. The team would give her one centimeter for cooking for a day, but this would make it a bit difficult for her to feed her family.

"It's okay. Wenxin can cook for us. But she can come to school later at noon. It's not easy to get past the teacher."

"There's no problem on the teacher's side. Just wait for me to talk to the teacher. Where's Wenxin?"

"I sewed those things until midnight and didn't get up yet."

Upon hearing that Chen Wenxin was busy until midnight last night, Wan Feng gave up the idea of ​​waking her up. He left Chen Cang's house, went down the ridge and headed straight for Xigou.

In southern Liaoning, the weather is warm as long as there is no wind, even in the coldest months of winter.

But this place is close to the sea, and there are very few days without wind. It would be a miracle if there was no wind for three consecutive days.

Today is a windless day. At around eight o'clock in the morning, the sun shines on Wan Feng's back, and his whole body and mind are warm.

It's time to execute a plan today.

Yuan Yimin and a few other children were gathered in a circle in front of his house, heads touching, and no one knew what they were doing.

Yuan Yimin accidentally looked up and saw Wan Feng.

"What's going on? Are you guys gathered here playing with piss and mud or playing with farts and jumping into a pit?"

"We're watching ants fight."

This is so fucking free.

"Is your father home?"

"What do you want with my dad?"

"Why don't you just tell me whether he is here or not? Can you understand me?"

"Hey, I don't understand your problem. My dad is digging sweet potatoes behind the house."

"Then why don't you go and help?"

"I'm still young and growing up. If I get exhausted from work, it will be a serious matter for my whole life." Yuan Yimin said seriously.

Wan Feng was stunned. These words sounded so familiar.

"Who the hell did you learn these crooked theories from?"

"Isn't this the wise saying you gave me? I learned it from you."

I said that? When did I say that?